--- title: Now it happened one day that a King who was hunting in the wood had… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now it happened one day that a King who was hunting in the wood had a large greyhound, who ran sniffing to the tree on which the girl sat, and jumped round it, yelping and barking furiously. Who acts: it, King, large greyhound, girl. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brot --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/78/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/) / 78 # The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 78 Now it happened one day that a King who was hunting in the wood had a large greyhound, who ran sniffing to the tree on which the girl sat, and jumped round it, yelping and barking furiously. **Who acts:** it, King, large greyhound, girl · **What happens:** happen, hunt, have, run, sniff, sit · **To what, where:** wood, large greyhound, tree This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, King, large greyhound, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:41:78 # text = Now it happened one day that a King who was hunting in the wood had a large greyhound, who ran sniffing to the tree on which the girl sat, and jumped round it, yelping and barking furiously. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 greyhound greyhound NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 sniffing sniff VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 round round ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 yelping yelp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 barking bark VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 conj _ _ 40 furiously furiously ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | it | | | | now; day | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hunt** | past · progressive | a King | | | the wood | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | | 3 | **have** | past | a King | a large greyhound | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Patient | | 4 | **run** | past | a large greyhound | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sniff** | gerund | a large greyhound *not said here* | | the tree | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tree=Recipient | | 6 | **sit** | past | the girl | | | the tree | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | | 7 | **jump** | past | | | | tree | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory | | 8 | **yelp** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **bark** | gerund | | | | | | furiously *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/79/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/)